EE 4.0 has had 0 bug fixes since its hasty release.
You can pull down the notification from the top anyway, you don't really need it in Menu > Notifications.
That's just an "extra" place for it. A waste if you ask me.
I'd post this in the Evil Eris 4.0 thread on xda-developers.
When you flash a first-version ROM (4.0's first release), there are things that aren't how they're supposed to be. It happens. Maybe 4.1 or whatever comes next during the second half of the month will work better.